1st Question
The engineering process can be a difficult one if you dont know what your doing and dont know how to do it. When i first joined graphics i didnt know how to make anything on the computer. Now i can make alot of different projects. From making a calendar to creating an animation. To start a project you need to know how to make it. Once you have done that you need to reseach your project maybe look at examples or making a practice object. When you have done that and think your comfortable with it you can now start the project for real. When you finsh the project you should look through to make sure you didnt make any mistakes.
2nd Question
The recipe book project was a very fun project to do. What we needed to do first was to get a counrty to do about. I had Russia. After we got our counrtys it was time to start the process. First everybody had to make their pages the same size or the whole project wouldnt work. If everyone got the pages right we could move on to start creating our recipe pages. You had to pick 2 foods from the counrty you choose and make a recipe page of the food. Once you pick a food and put down the recipe you had to make a picture of the food. You do this by getting a picture of the food off the internet then copying it into paint. Then you use a color tool to make it look like you drew the picture yourself. Once you were finshed with that you paste on your recipe book and your done. Everybody in the class had to make 2 recipe pages from different places in the world. The people who were in level 1 had to make a glossary page and other pages. When that was done we all made a cover for our recipe book and voted on which one should go on the front.
3rd Question
I didnt know how to make anything on the computer before i joined this graphics class. Before i came into graphics i didnt know anything about photoshop. Their was alot of things that i didnt know about that i do now. I didnt know that you can have 2 pictures (say a head and a rock) and take the eyes from the head and put them on the rock. Another thing i didnt know how to do was the animations. I never really understood the process of making an animation before i came to graphics. Now im making them like a pro. Another project i didnt know how to do was making a tri fold brocure. There was alot of process to make this brocure. To practice we made a Thayer Street brocure. This was a brocure where we were given a topic (like gifts) and we had to find shops that had our topic. Another program i didnt know how to use was Publisher. Publisher is a great program. With Publisher you can make anyind of card from a banner to a birthday card, This is a great program to have. Now instead of buying a birthday card from a store i can make my own customized card. Another project we did that i didnt know anything about was our calendar. This was a really fun project to do. We made our own calendar on anything we wanted to do. I made mine my Florida vacation. Another really fun project we did was making a tye dye shirt. This was a great project. I never knew how to make a tye dye shirt but now i know how to and i might make tye dye shirts in the future. When i had gotton windows movie maker at my house i never knew how to use to until now. I didnt know how to import videos and make special effects.
4th Question
I think that the best term that i had was term 3. I choose this term because of the calendar project. This was a very fun project to make. I aslo learned alot about the programs that were used to make this project. With all projects there were many mistakes and problems. Like I sometimes didnt make the words contrast with the background and you couldnt read it. Eventually i got better with the color contrasts. This project is hanging in my room because i like it so much.